6/9/2023 0 Comments The virgin suicides full book![]() ![]() Narrated by a group of now-grown neighborhood boys several decades after the events of the main story, the novel is about the successive suicides of the five Lisbon sisters and the boys’ desperate attempts to uncover why these girls of American suburbia killed themselves. So, when I read Jeffrey Eugenides’s novel “The Virgin Suicides,” I was caught off guard. Mental illness is by no means uncommon - my experiences aren’t unique - but there are still a few emotions and sensations that I have never been able to translate fully into words, nor have I seen others have much luck with the feat. And as someone who has struggled with mental illness, especially so in those oh-so-cringeworthy years, those pains of adolescence were only amplified. That must be one of the few universal truths of childhood. I am not the first to say that the later years of middle school and early high school were hell. ![]()
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